Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

> On Oct 20, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > > Greetings! My apologies for not answering sooner, but I was slated to > assemble the new release. > > If we are not in a hurry, I will continue to do so as planned. > > If we want this sooner than later, I

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

Hopefully, over the next couple days, I expect to have some free time to finish the FDI 1.2 batch installer. This does not include a couple advanced options. Such as altering the installation target or detailed package selection. Those will require me to finish V8PT first. Who is going to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

Hi Tom, I don't have Flash installed either. The original video is just a standard Mac OS X Yosemite screen recording. I think h.264 wrapped in an mov file. But, Facebook does some processing and conversion to it after it is uploaded. > On Oct 18, 2015, at 2:46 AM, "Thomas Mueller"

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

> On Oct 18, 2015, at 9:10 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> Without vecho, multi-color text highlighting won’t be viable. > > You could do this EECHO style, where $ is echoed as ESC char, > making it easy to use ANSI escapes for color. Actually this > feature is

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

> On Oct 6, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. >> wrote: >> >>> On Oct 4, 2015, at 10:02 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: >>> >>> It was nice of whomever wrote FreeCOM to

Re: [Freedos-devel] V8Power Tools for DOS

such as Grabbing keys...,Revving engine,etc.Other than that,I found it useful. On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: I'm sharing this for Jerome. Jerome Shidel has been working on a set of power utilities for DOS batch files. Called the V8Power Tools for DOS, they provide

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

> On Sep 10, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, Jayden, Rugxulo, Jim, Matheusz, others! Some more thoughts: > >> I don’t see a way to install the KERNEL.SYS without updating the >> boot sector. But, should always at least ask to back stuff up. > > Read

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer

> On Sep 10, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> [..] >> I have the FDI 1.2 prototype installer about 30% done already. > > Excellent! > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer

> On Sep 10, 2015, at 8:33 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Just to get this one out of the way: > > > On 07/09/2015 13:51, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Who is making the Batch file based installer for FreeDOS 1.2? > > I will be more than happy to answer any

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2 Questions?

nt, it wraps all that stuff up into a zip file. And puts it under a dir called FDBackup. Enumerating the zip as next avail FDBAK0.zip (or 1, 2, 3) Easy to change to FDOS.OLD though. >> On 9/15/2015 8:53 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> The installer is going well and is about 50% done. B

[Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2 Questions?

The installer is going well and is about 50% done. But, I have two questions. Situation: User is doing an upgrade install from FD1.1. FDI already prompts to backup. Then will backup config files and the c:\FDOS directory. 1) should FDI purge the c:\fdos directory before it installs the new

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

> On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:26 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: > > Hey, > > Couldn't you use 4DOS as the command shell during the installation process? > Unfortunately, no. Some of the things that need to be done require I/O redirection (pipes and such) and using the output of

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

> On Dec 2, 2015, at 11:14 AM, "Jerome E. Shidel Jr." wrote: > > >> On Dec 2, 2015, at 3:28 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> >> I uploaded a new devel version right now: >> >> gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/temp >> >> Joe Forster kindly hinted off-list that open

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 12:47 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Could you confirm please that these tests were performed using the > latest version of both the all_cd.iso and fdinst? This was running against previous version of all_cd.iso. Not, latest. As I said, I have limited

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

> On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Maarten Vermeulen wrote: > > Hi, > > Dutch, yes me but there is one thing my name is MAARTEN NOT Marteen :) > Maarten (me) does dutch. I am currently working on FDSETUP.DEF, almost > finished. > The other files not to be translated. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages

Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 19, 2015, at 8:55 AM, Maarten Vermeulen <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2015-12-19 3:00 GMT+01:00 Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net>: >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone > > Interesting... ;P Even though I

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages

Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 18, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Maarten wrote: > > Just a few things: > > I added this to the author section: > > > *** > FreeDOS 1.2 Installer (language) Translation. >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

> On Dec 21, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > >> At present, based on a user Facebook poll. This is the state of >> current Language Translations for FDI. I don’t know if all of these >> are possible using the Standard DOS Latin Codepage. > >> I don’t know if

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

> On Dec 21, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Matej Horvat > wrote: > >> On 2015-12-21 15:06, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: >> >> I don’t know if it is would be possible to have FDI keep changing the >> Codepage and Character set. But, I don’t think Jim would want the >> added

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST bug?

> On Nov 24, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > >> On 24/11/2015 18:38, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: >> That fixed the problem with the attrib package. >> But, now there is a new problem. :( >> FDINST locks-up while extracting the help package. > > That's a bug specific

[Freedos-devel] FDI

Did some major improvements to FDI and V8Power Tools. Added /t support to vframe. So, text panels can be adjusted inside language text files. Added search and replace to vstr. So now, new "template" autoexec and config files can be created dynamically using settings from installation. Like

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

> On Nov 22, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Geraldo Netto wrote: > > Hello Maarten, > > How are you doing? > > Actually, all you need to do is go to http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net/ > right-click and save any file from "en" column :) > So, you will download the original english

Re: [Freedos-devel] FPC 3.0.0

On Jan 14, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> Well, I was messing around a little with the new FreePascal Compiler for DOS. > >> Basically, what ships requires DOS LFN support. Many units, libraries and >> executables >> are longer than the 8.3 standard file names.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Useful Tools for FreeDOS: Bilgisayarcılık DOS Tools

Hello, First and foremost, I took a look at your GitHub sources and would definitely like to encourage you to continue with developing software for DOS. Assembly can be a very difficult language for many to understand. Your code is very clean looking and easy to read. We all learn by doing.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI, updated

Ah, sorry. Didn't realize it was in there. Will do. Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors and incorrect spell-corrected words. > On Jan 26, 2016, at 3:53 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > I'd like to make a minor suggestion here. > > When

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2

Hello all, > On Jan 26, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, Jim et al, > > In view of available disk space on normal computers, I would like to > interpret Jim's view in a broad sense: If ANY version of MS DOS had > the feature and we have something to

[Freedos-devel] FDI USB stick

Hello Eric and all, A little more follow up on the USB stick test. The same user who was testing, per my suggestion ran it in advanced mode to override the automatic D: drive as the install target. He said the install ran flawlessly when he set it to C:\FDOS. He did say that he had an issue

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2

> On Jan 26, 2016, at 7:00 PM, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > >> On 1/26/2016 6:18 PM, Eric Auer wrote: >> ... >> >> Jerome, regarding the packages which are part of the ALL choice: The >> list seems suspiciously SHORT to me! We had a lot more to offer in >> older

[Freedos-devel] FDI USB stick

Well, I just got some feedback from a Facebook user who really really wants the USB stick installer and tried that image I made. He had 4 problems, but was still happy it mostly worked. 1) he had to manually start setup.bat. Which prompted for the "full shell command line" humm... 2)

[Freedos-devel] A note on Preview 13

Floppy image, installer only. Requires a repo CD. Two USB images available. Slim, at present 32mb image. Contains BASE and ALL only. Next, I'm going to work on what is actually in those sets. USB, a 500mb image. Also contains additional packages. Only a couple at present. But, intend it to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI remaining issue

There is an additional option. 5) just do something similar FreeDOS 1.1. Make a backup of old MBR, then just blast new MBR. > On Feb 20, 2016, at 7:02 PM, Maarten Vermeulen wrote: > > > Those 3&4 , prompting we can translate. That’s bo problem because it’s > writing.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

Hello, Rugxulo pointed me at a custom FreeDOS release that has some networking support. I haven't had time to look at it closely. But, initial quick and simple tests showed support for VirtualBox and VMware (bridged NIC). > On Jul 31, 2016, at 8:32 PM, Louis Santillan

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Translations?

Well, I just saw that http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net has gone into a “No Maintainer” state. I am wondering what is going to happen to future FreeDOS localizations?-- Check out

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

> On Feb 2, 2017, at 5:26 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > Skinning at the moment can only be done by modifying code (skin.c). I left it > out because I do not know the best method of providing a decent configuration > file without adding allot of code bloat. FLTK has a

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Online Software Repository

Hello All, Just an update. There were some requests that there was a CSV of the FreeDOS software packages. So, I finally found a few minutes to add it to the repository management utility. It should automatically update when software packages are changed or added. It includes the fields

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure: fixed

Hello Tom, Did you get hold of the maintainer? The package lists that as Eric Auer. But, that could be incorrect. I just haven’t heard anything for a couple days and was wondering what was going on with find. Jerome

Re: [Freedos-devel] fdnpkg: Repository download failed (ibiblio)

Hello Paul, > On Nov 7, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote: > > I just copied ping.exe (WATTCP) and I now see I get ** Transmit fault ** > Guess I need to put even more time to figure out how to configure network. > Sorry for noise. Did you try the FDNET package? I do

Re: [Freedos-devel] keyb us does not work

> On Nov 6, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi people, > > it might be sort of obvious but... > >>> US is much more usable for us. >>> >>> But then, when I type >>> keyb us >>> >>> the 2 output lines, seems to suggest that it worked. >>> >>> But I still have

Re: [Freedos-devel] fdnpkg: Repository download failed (ibiblio)

There is also the Intel e1000 gigabit packet driver to try. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/e1000pkt.html-- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Juan, > On Oct 12, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > wrote: > > I have installed > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/previews/1.2-pre23/FD12CD.iso > on a VMware virtual machine. The host is linux. The installation

Re: [Freedos-devel] development workflow?

Some of the stuff on the current site is out dated. I think that mostly Jim has been working on the new site and keeping the old one in static mode. I could be wrong. I haven't been following that aspect very closely. The new 1.2 repo creates HTML pages for the packages automatically. These

Re: [Freedos-devel] slow FreeDOS install - was: FreeDOS 1.2-RC1 onHyper-V 2012 R2

> On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:04 AM, > wrote: > > I know it’s in first boot order. It also boots first. Try just booting the FD12FLOPPY, then don't connect the CD until you are greeted by the installer. Don't use the boot.img on the CD. Humm, at present

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 -- Keymap

Hello All, This is my plan. I will try to find the time over the next couple days to implement the keyboard mapping in the installer. If the user is in advanced mode OR selects a non-English language, the installer will prompt for a couple of keyboard settings. US, UK, GR, GR2, SG, NL, FR

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 - Turkish Character Layout

> On Dec 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm using Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.10. I installed FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 on virtual > machine. I selected Turkish language in setup. In setup and after install, > Turkish characters isn't applied by FreeDOS. > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 - Turkish Character Layout

> On Dec 17, 2016, at 3:45 PM, thraex <thr...@numericable.fr> wrote: > > Jerome Shidel wrote: >> >>> On Dec 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: >>> >>> I'm using Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.10. I installed FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 on >>> virtua

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

> On Dec 4, 2016, at 3:31 AM, Philip Hoefer wrote: > [..] > 4. The error message was invalid opcode, but scrolled very fast and > indefinitely. I have seen this before with modern linux distributions when an > old CPU is not supported. > > The note on the website

Re: [Freedos-devel] SOUND Program for FreeDOS

> On Apr 18, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Looks like your program generates specific frequencies for a defined duration: > > printf("SOUND - Output sound from PC speaker.\r\n"); > printf(" SOUND frequency delay\r\n"); > printf("\r\n"); >

[Freedos-devel] Wait don't fix you code bug!

Hello all, In case you haven't heard, there is a severe bug in Intel Skylake and Newer CPUs. I only know a little about it. From what I heard, it crops up with hyper-threading inside loops less than 64 bytes effecting several high byte registers (AH, BH, etc). They are working on a microcode

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wait don't fix you code bug!

> On Jun 30, 2017, at 10:56 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> >> In case you haven't heard, there is a severe bug in Intel Skylake and Newer >> C

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Software Repositories Update

Hello again everyone, I just finished adding some new stuff to the fdrepo.sh Software Repository Management Utility. These new features added support for automatic RSS feed creation and updating. It automatically adds any new or updated packages into the feed. The Official software

Re: [Freedos-devel] Unix-like utilities for FreeDOS

irectory. I have put them here: >>> >>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/ >>> >>> >>> If I missed something on ibiblio that didn't get moved and should >>> have, please let me know. > > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:35

Re: [Freedos-devel] Unix-like utilities for FreeDOS

> On May 29, 2017, at 3:25 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > >> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Jim Hall wrote: >> We have a few Unix-workalike utilities on ibiblio. >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/ >> >> I think over the

Re: [Freedos-devel] What is FreeDOS 2.0?

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi all > > I don't know if you saw on our Twitter or on Facebook, but since its > release on December 25 2016, FreeDOS 1.2 passed 500,000 downloads in > June 2017. And passed 600,000 in August. As of this week, FreeDOS 1.2

Re: [Freedos-devel] splash screen

> On Nov 22, 2017, at 10:04 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > [...] > Not really. We had a similar discussion about a much earlier FreeDOS > release, and it doesn't make sense to have a graphical splash screen > for FreeDOS. Since FreeDOS runs in "text mode" and isn't a GUI on its > own,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling with gcc

I didn’t read most of the messages in this thread. So, forgive me if I have completely missed something important. Why allocate any memory for reading the environment variables? Why not just examine them in place? They are just Null terminated strings.

Re: [Freedos-devel] splash screen

I gave thought to this when creating FDI. I figured that the standard release could have one. But, it was not needed and would use more precious disk space on the boot floppy. However, an OEM vendor that shipped on of those FreeDOS systems may desire to display their logo or something. So,

Re: [Freedos-devel] row4 (was: Compiling with gcc)

> On Oct 28, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: > > Am Samstag, dem 28. Okt 2017 schrieb Mateusz Viste: > >> It is not supposed to work unpacked as-is. The archive, even though it >> looks like a standard zip file, is in fact a FreeDOS package that needs >> to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Branded C/C++ Toolchain

Hello, Not sure I like renaming someone else’s tools and slapping the FreeDOS name on them. You really need to ask Jim Hall if he is fine with you using the FreeDOS name this way. Putting that issue aside for the moment, what is the advantage of this toolchain? You said you spent over a

[Freedos-devel] EDICT for DOS

Hello all, To make a long story short(er), I recently acquired a 5.25 1.2mb floppy drive to image a box of ancient disks I had laying around. As so many things in life go, only a few diskettes in and problems reading a couple occurred. The normal DOS disk image creation tool just didn’t feel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

Just an FYI. I dove back into that Supported Video Card detection function and changed it over to what was referenced by Mateusz. https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/blob/master/INFO/INFO.PAS Reminds me. I really need to put more of my old stuff in there. I just haven’t been very motivated

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

2296972) > Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) > > www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com > www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org > >> On 2018-07-16 10:26, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> :-) >> On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Mark Olesen >> wrote: >>&

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

> On Jul 16, 2018, at 3:35 PM, David McMackins wrote: > > I was replying to Jerome who is the original author of the Pascal one. > > I get that VGA is widely available. I'm writing a library, so I want to > support as much as possible. My intended targets (in the order of planned >

Re: [Freedos-devel] VGA frame rates and mouse

Argh…. All of this talk about VGA frame rates, alpha masks, sprites and pixels, you are really making me want to write a 2D DOS gaming engine. lol. Anyhow, you said you wanted to do your code in “Pure C”. From my personal experience, a lot of the information on the web pertaining to very low

Re: [Freedos-devel] VGA frame rates and mouse

Hi, > On Jul 24, 2018, at 6:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi :-) Glad that we are inspiring you, Jerome ;-) I don’t really have the time to do it. Arg!! :-) > > But I disagree about spending 35 for a book - you > can find plenty of information on the web, because > that topic was

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

:-) > On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/blob/master/INFO/INFO.PAS > Wow, that’s some ancient Pascal code. Pretty sure it pre-dates FreeDOS and the Internet. LOL It’s been so long. If I recall correctly, it was made with information in

Re: [Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

Hello, :-) > On Jul 10, 2018, at 3:06 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone > > I'd like to start work on FreeDOS 1.3! > > We talked before that the next release would be an iteration on FreeDOS 1.2. > That means the next distribution will be FreeDOS 1.3 - and not 2.0. We wanted > the next

Re: [Freedos-devel] Removing non-free packages

Hello, CDP is not listed as being included on any of the FreeDOS 1.2 release media. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/compare.html It is still available on the software repository.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

> On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:57 PM, thraex wrote: > > > > 10-07-2018 23:46 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: > >>> On Jul 10, 2018, at 3:06 PM, Jim Hall >> <mailto:jh...@freedos.org>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone >>> >>

Re: [Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

> On Jul 12, 2018, at 11:22 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > [...] > Sep 30 - no new packages > Oct 31 - no new languages > Nov 30 - RC1 > Dec 31 - RC2 > Jan 31 - 1.3 release Sounds fine to me. -- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [Freedos-devel] Regarding translations for FreeDOS

> On Oct 31, 2018, at 1:30 PM, thraex wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > For some reason the private e-mails I send end up in the antispam box of > the recipients, so I'm sending to the list instead. I just wanted to > remind that for French and Turkish all the packages have been translated > on

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

e of chars, but it is way more convinient >> to do it with a 1280px wide screen... >> >> It is also not that easy to find a editor that open more than ~64k, >> you'll have to try with a few editor, if you don't know which one >> supports it. And win2k notepa

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

> On Sep 19, 2018, at 4:45 AM, stecdose wrote: > > I just have downloaded the csv-file and had a look at it. It isn't as > big as I thought. > > I am going to translate the whole list to german. It will take a few > days, I have some real-life work to do, but I think I am done >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Dec 29, 2018, at 8:38 AM, TK Chia wrote: > [..]\ > The i16butil.zip description glitch (I just checked the packages I uploaded > onto GitHub) may be because the .lsm file in it has a multi-line description, > similar to this: > > Description: GNU binary utilities, for ia16-elf

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Dec 29, 2018, at 7:47 AM, thraex wrote: > > > Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> Hi everybody. > > Hello Jerome, > >> If you want to see 1.3 built in the cloud on DigitalOcean, check out >> the https://youtu.be/XZoWCFJDdqY > > Looking

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi again, >> On Dec 29, 2018, at 7:47 AM, thraex > > wrote: >> […] >> Looking at all this scrolling text (after the make clean translate all >> command), I noticed that some packages (edict, fdtui and others) didn't >> have their descriptions translated, so I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi > On Dec 31, 2018, at 11:51 AM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > > I do not trust clouds since many of them have been compromised > already, and all those Snowden revelations etc... So I sincerely hope > that it will be always possible to build FreeDOS locally. Happy coming > New Year ! :) > > Best

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Dec 31, 2018, at 8:44 AM, TK Chia wrote: > > Hello Jerome, > >> The short answer is — At present, the online repo management tools do not >> support multi-line descriptors. Everything after the first line is ignored. >> So, stuff on additional lines is excluded from the automatically

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

> On Jan 1, 2019, at 1:31 PM, thraex wrote: > > > > 29.12.2018 18:18 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: > > >>> Finally, if there is other stuff that can be translated for FreeDOS, >>> feel free to yell at me. >> >> :-) > > Well, you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

> On Jan 1, 2019, at 6:30 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > >> On Jan 1, 2019, at 1:31 PM, thraex wrote: >> >> >> >> 29.12.2018 18:18 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> >> >>>> Finally, if there is other stuf

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Dec 29, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > […] > Making the installation depend on having one of two Linux distributions is > severely limiting, I would say a show stopper. There really is no technical reason it couldn’t be built on other Linux distros. However, the build

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Jan 2, 2019, at 12:38 PM, thraex wrote: > > > 2.01.2019 02:30 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> >> Sorry, I didn’t notice. Displaying the found translations is a new feature >> in the build environment. I know there are a couple missin from the German

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

> On Jan 2, 2019, at 4:05 PM, stecdose wrote: > > >>> * If the installation language is Russian, the text is garbled, no >>> Cyrillic letters are displayed. >> Yeah, that’s a known issue. Cant really think of a “good” way to solve it. >> >> Here’s the problem. >> >> Language and translation

Re: [Freedos-devel] DO FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi all, Some significant improvements were made to the LiveCD Type-1 today. So, if you’ve been building the early 1.3 release pre-beta versions, you should pull the latest GitLab source and do a clean rebuild. More or less like so... git pull make clean translate all make cdrom release Or...

[Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi everybody. We are still hard at work on the upcoming FreeDOS 1.3. But, I just couldn't help sharing something really cool about the new version. It has a completely new release build process. It can even create stock or custom releases on compatible cloud hosting. If you want to see 1.3

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi Tom, > On Dec 28, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > > >> We are still hard at work on the upcoming FreeDOS 1.3. > it would be cool to know who 'we’ is That is a tricky one. I guess it all depends on what part of 1.3 is being referenced. Obviously, the OS is made up

[Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

Hello again everyone, Thanks to one of the community members, we now have translations in French and Turkish on hand for all of the FreeDOS packages in the repository. These translations will definitely make it into the upcoming 1.3 release and be supported by FDIMPLES for package browsing

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

> On Mar 1, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > >> This one was me. I was able to use LiveCD2 on QEMU to boot and install >> FreeDOS 1.3 RC1. > > When I suggested that FreeDOS 1.3 should contain a LiveCD, I had > something more useful in mind than the thing that materialized now; How

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Louis, > >> Do you mean something like the SHSU* Image/ISO to RAMDrive utils [0][1][2] >> when you said, " If we had a driver that could directly use CD/DVD media >> like a hard drive and cache changes to RAM, then things could be

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 10:42 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > questions about the dynamic size semi-live CD, which are > the minimum amounts of memory for which package sets? > > You say with 24 MB you get a system, then at some point > you get BASE, much later FULL or even

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 8:19 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, thanks for the insights :-) Your welcome. > > So what is the combined size of all "programs which have settings > or high scores" which the user would like to be updated? Remember > that high scores in ramdisk are lost

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

> On Mar 9, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Thanks for the package list pointers! :-) Your welcome. > >> All release specific settings are in that >> https://github.com/shidel/FDI/tree/master/SETTINGS > >> Boot floppies are PKG_FDI.LST with files and directories >> in CLEANUP.LST

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> LiveCD1 size is flexible... > > Looking at your links (PS: typo "intalled") the current :-) I’ll have to fix that. > list seems to be, in that order: > > BASE, FDI,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

> On Feb 9, 2019, at 11:14 AM, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Jerome Shidel [09.02.2019 16:50]: > >> CD2 is probably more compatible (CD1 doesn’t run under QEMU). It needs 128mb >> of ram. More RAM is unused. It requires a good chunk of real estate on the >> CD (

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

Hi everyone, We really do want to hear your opinions on which LiveCD we should keep. They both have very specific advantages and disadvantages. Just to pick a couple. CD1 can run with 64MB of ram and can use GBs. It also uses very little space on the CD. CD2 is probably more compatible (CD1

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

Hi again, in regards to using LiveCD2 with QEMU this is what I’ve been told… LiveCD2 booted up just fine, even with an unpartitioned C: drive. This is what I did: $ qemu-system-i386 -m 256 -k en-us -rtc base=localtime -soundhw sb16,adlib,pcspk -device cirrus-vga -display gtk -boot order=d

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

dows 10 home edition computer. > This is very interesting. Are you all running the latest version of QEMU? If so, you all should get the same result (good or bad). > Thank you! > > -Random > >> On 2/9/2019 6:50 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> &

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

> On Feb 10, 2019, at 12:48 PM, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Jerome Shidel [10.02.2019 17:39]: > >> Hi again, in regards to using LiveCD2 with QEMU this is what I’ve been told… >> >> LiveCD2 booted up just fine, even with an unpartitioned C: drive. This >&

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

> On Feb 11, 2019, at 11:49 PM, Andy Stamp wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:34 PM Andy Stamp wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:32 PM Random Liegh via Freedos-devel >>> wrote: >>> Hi, thanks for repl

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

In case you haven’t heard. FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 is now out. More info on www.freedos.org. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] RC2 - Turkish translations not applied

Hi Eric, > On Dec 17, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >  > Hi Jerome, > >> FDI itself can switch display font’s and for reasons I don’t >> feel like going in to at the moment, it does not use >> the codepage system. It uses transient bitmapped text mode >> fonts... > > Does that mean

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